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Last of Us

I was expecting to write about how The Last of Us Part I arriving on PC is the latest example of a great PC port of a Sony PlayStation title. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The Last of Us Part I arrived on PC yesterday and players aren’t happy. Out of more than 9,000 reviews in the Steam store, 67 percent are negative.

PC players are reporting issues that range from random crashes and stuttering, all the way up to long shader compilation times and characters randomly becoming dripping wet in cut scenes. The game also appears to be poorly optimized, taking up large amounts of VRAM on systems and dropping frames. I’ve personally experienced crashes and random frame rate drops on my own test system, which is a top-end gaming PC equipped with an RTX 4090.

It’s bad enough that PlayStation studio Naughty Dog has had to issue a statement. “The Last of Us Part I PC players: we’ve heard your concerns, and our team is actively investigating multiple issues you’ve reported,” the studio tweeted from its official account. “We will continue to update you, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in upcoming patches.”

Dolphin:
Nintendo might be making it harder to play its older games on official hardware, but there are other options if you know where to look. One of them is about to be a lot easier to find: Dolphin, a popular emulator that runs most GameCube and Wii titles, will be launching on Steam later this year. Dolphin is already available for free, but launching on Steam could make using the emulator more straightforward on devices like the Steam Deck, where dropping to desktop mode and manually installing programs can be a little cumbersome.

That doesn’t mean downloading Dolphin from the Steam store will give you instant access to classic Nintendo games, however. Dolphin’s store page is quick to point out that the “app does not come with games. You must own an original copy of any game you want to use with Dolphin.” If you’ve dabbled in retro game emulation at all, that should sound pretty familiar — emulating console games is a bit of a legal gray area.

That’s probably why the Dolphin Steam page is reluctant to even identify what, exactly, it does — instead choosing to say it plays “classics from the Big N’s cube-shaped and motion-controlled consoles.” The emulator’s website is a bit more explicit, specifically stating that “downloading commercial games is illegal” and encouraging users use homebrew tools to make backups of game discs they legally own.

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